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ABOUT SENATOR DILLE Dille's top legislative priority is for you and everyone you know to be happily married millionaires. Dille believes stable marriages and financial success pave the road to increasing Minnesota's tax base while decreasing citizens' reliance on government services. For the past several years, he has worked and passed into law personal financial management and investment as a high school graduation requirement. On other issues, Dille wants to increase livestock production and decrease urban sprawl. Dille has never been one to avoid the tough issues. He played prominent roles in the 1991 Wetland Reform Act and subsequent wetlands legislation, the MIlle Lacs Indian Treaty legislation, and the NSP (now Xcel) Dry Cask Storage compromise of 1994. He has chief authored or coauthored nearly all of Minnesota's feedlot, livestock production, and disease control legislation passed since 1987. In 2005, he wrote a book titled Livestock, Good for the Economy and Good for the Environment (free copies are available from his office). After veterinarian school, Dille volunteered to serve 3 1/2 years in Vietnam as a civilian veterinary advisor. He worked with Vietnamese farmers to help improve the health of their poultry, swine, and buffalo. It was dangerous work with Dille finding himself in, under, or near enemy fire about a dozen times. He returned to the University to teach at the College of Veterinary Medicine and also worked as an Extension Service veterinarian. He practiced veterinary medicine in New Ulm, Litchfield, and Dassel. Dille has always been interested in government, politics, and leadership. When he was 19, he visited the Capitol and decided then that he wanted someday to serve in the Legislature. He worked his way through the ranks, first as Dassel Township supervisor, then as a commissioner on the Meeker County Board. In 1986 he was elected to the House. He moved to the Senate in 1992. He is the fourth member of his family to serve in the Minnesota State Senate. Dille was a rodeo cowboy and state champion calf roper, steer wrestler, and bull rider. In high school, he won the Minnesota All Around Cowboy title twice and placed fourth in the nation in steer wrestling. Currently, Dille owns and operates a 640 acre crop and livestock farm. He produces cattle, hogs, sheep, corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay. |    |
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